Activities concerning IP Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED)
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The IPR Enforcement Directive part 1 was narrowly passed through the European Parliament in early 2004, without criminal sanctions. Part 2 consists in these criminal sanctions and is being pushed by the Commission in Autumn 2005. The idea of legislating across the board on everything called "intellectual property" has been strongly criticised, and there is a particular danger that abuses of such property rights will be aggravated.
Status
- UK
Basic Analysis page with references to the documents Ipred2En
Position Papers
Problems
Demands
- judicial over-regulation, TRIPs is enough
- take patents out e.g. bz wording art 3 like trips 61
- no across the board IPR enforcement legislation
- no criminal sanctions mandated by EU (illicit extension of competences)
- de-harmonisation by directives based on abstract concepts instead of narrow concrete cases
